Dönges (Bad Salzungen)

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Dönges
City of Bad Salzungen
Coat of arms of Dönges
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 321  (315-350)  m
Residents : 260  (Dec. 31 1992)
Incorporation : March 8, 1994
Incorporated into: Depth location
Postal code : 36469
Area code : 036963
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Dönges in the north of the urban area
In the local area of ​​Dönges
In the local area of ​​Dönges

Dönges is a district of the town of Bad Salzungen in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

geography

Dönges is located on the eastern edge of the Frauensee forest . The place is about ten kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the core town of Bad Salzungen . Dönges borders in the north on Marksuhl ( Gerstungen municipality ), in the east on the districts of Weißendiez and Hüttenhof , in the south on Tiefenort and in the west on Frauensee . The geographic height of the place is 315  m above sea level. NN .

Mountains and waters

The highest point of the district is located 500 m southwest of the locality ( 350.5  m above sea level ), the Mieß ( 338.9  m above sea level ) is remarkable . On the eastern edge of the village there is a small water-filled sinkhole . The legendary Hautsee , also a sinkhole, and the Albertsee are located north of Dönges in the Marksuhl district. The Grenzgraben, a small tributary of the Suhl, rises to the east of the village .

history

It was first mentioned in a document on September 29, 1222. Dönges belonged to the Frauenseer monastery as an estate . The Lords of Frankenstein , who were temporarily sitting in the nearby Krayenburg , sold their estates in 1330, already heavily in debt (Frankenstein sales letter). In 1407 the Thuringian landgraves bought the Krayenburg castle district again; they were also the guardians of the nearby Frauensee monastery . In 1455 the monastery complained to the duke about a castle man from the Krayenburg who had taken possession of the monastery property in Dönges, Albertsee, Weißendiez and Sebach. The hoff zcu Thennchiß managed the Hautsee and the Albertsee in 1486 . The area of ​​the former Frauensee monastery, to which Dönges also belonged, was secularized after the Reformation in 1540.

In 1553, the Hessian Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous, as the new owner of the Frauensee office , decreed that the villages and their inhabitants should be examined , and at the same time he determined that his new subjects should convert to the Protestant faith. After the Thirty Years' War the small settlements around Dönges (Lehnhof, Dackgrube, Lindenau, Rehlis) and most of the farms in the village were desolate. Only 12 inhabitants were counted after the war. In 1812, parts of Napoleon's "Great Army" passed the military roads via Vacha in the direction of Eisenach . Troop transfers took place in large numbers. When the defeated army withdrew, Dönges was also looted. By assigning territory, Dönges came in 1816 with the Frauensee office from the Electorate of Hesse to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . The much-used country road from Marksuhl via Dönges to Kieselbach and Tiefenort was expanded into a "state road of the first order" from 1816 as a road ; it was paved with basalt .

After a great increase in prices in 1847, the then landowner Jungheinrich founded an agricultural training and research institute on the neighboring Hetzeberg estate to train and improve agricultural yields , which existed there until 1870. The first school was built in 1867/68. The place had 43 houses and 238 inhabitants around 1840. In 1879, based on the 1875 census , statistical information was published for the first time. At that time Dönges had 56 houses and 288 inhabitants. The total area of ​​the district was 279.1 ha - of which courtyards and gardens 10.2 ha, meadows 41.8 ha, fields 169.9 ha, forests 0.1 ha, ponds, streams and rivers 1.6 ha, paths, drifts and orchards 55.4 ha. In search of potash deposits, test borings were carried out in the Döngeser Flur from 1911 onwards. In 1920 the “Dönges I” shaft ( Heiligenroda IV) was built and the construction of a cable car to transport the extracted salts to the Springen plant was tackled. In 1922 the place was connected to the electricity network, and in 1927 it received a central drinking water supply.

In World War II, 10 inhabitants are killed or were missing.

The school was relocated to Frauensee as early as 1950. Dönges, which was previously in the Eisenach district , was incorporated into the Bad Salzungen district in October 1950 and was now part of the Suhl district . A village cemetery was established in 1958 and the cemetery chapel was consecrated in 1978. In 1970 a dairy cattle facility with 230 animal places was built on the southern outskirts. The place has become a popular destination thanks to the nearby Hautsee . In 1970 the Hautsee house was built. A bitumen mixing plant was built in 1991 as the first industrial settlement.

Dönges has belonged to Tiefenort since the regional reform in 1994 . The municipality of Tiefenort became part of the city of Bad Salzungen on July 6, 2018.

coat of arms

The coat of arms refers to a local legend, it shows the floating island and two mermaids in the Hautsee.

traffic

Road traffic

The nearest junction (Gerstungen) of the A 4 is 18 kilometers away. The federal highway 84 runs through the village in the section Eisenach - Marksuhl - Vacha .

Rail transport

The closest train station is in Bad Salzungen . In the neighboring town of Marksuhl there is a stop on the South Thuringia Railway .

Transportation

The following bus routes operated by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Wartburgkreis mbH operate to Dönges:

line Driving distance
L-70 Eisenach - Marksuhl - Dönges - Tiefenort - Bad Salzungen
L-101 Eisenach - Marksuhl - Dönges - Kieselbach - Kaltennordheim
L-102 Bad Salzungen - Leimbach - Tiefenort - Dönges - Frauensee - Kieselbach
L-131 Merkers - Dönges - Kieselbach - Dorndorf

gallery

  • Krayenberg (Tiefenort) seen from Dönges Trift

  • Dönges (old school building) photo from 2011

  • Albertsee, Hautsee, Dönges, Frauensee (aerial photo Aug 2013)

  • Doenges aerial photo Aug 2013

Personalities

  • Wilhelm Koch (born March 3, 1877 in Dönges, † March 7, 1950 in Wuppertal), trade unionist and politician (DNVP), Reich Minister of Transport

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
  2. ↑ Waldemar Küther : Document book of the Frauensee monastery 1202–1540 number 13. Cologne / Graz 1961
  3. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Sinn, Ortschronik von Dönges. In: The Hautsee with the floating island near Dönges. A German natural monument. Dönges 1991. p. 14 ff.
  4. ↑ Manfred Oertel: Vitzeroda and his church - S. 114f
  5. ↑ From 1900 the school was operated as a "Winter School for Farmers in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach" in Marksuhl Castle .
  6. ^ C. Kronfeld, Regional Studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Second part. Weimar 1879. pp. 34f
  7. ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the communities of Tiefenort, Dönges and Oberrohn of February 18, 1994 (GVBl p. 243)
  8. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 7 2018 of July 5, 2018 , accessed on July 6, 2018
  9. ↑ Verkehrsgesellschaft Wartburgkreis mbH - timetable

literature

  • Wolfgang Sinn: Local history of Dönges. In: The Hautsee with the floating island near Dönges. A German natural monument. Dönges 1991. 25 pp.

Web links

Commons : Dönges  - collection of images, videos and audio files